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Name: Lisa
Status: student
Age: 8
Location: N/A
Country: N/A
Date: 2000
Question:
What chemical in nail polish makes it(the nail polish) stay on your finger nail so long?

Replies:
It's actually all of the chemicals together that make nail polish work so well. The polish has ingredients that have color, that provide wearability, that "wet" the nail to help the polish attach, that help the polish apply smoothly and that help the polish dry smoothly. It is important that the polish is mixed well before you start to apply it, so the right amounts of each ingredient are on the brush each time you dip it into the bottle. No one ingredient makes nail polish good. It takes all of them together to do the job.

Tim Spry


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